Letters to the editor: Lack of empathy is not so surprising

This just upsets me so much. The day I leave an injured animal behind to suffer in the elements - to be eaten alive by vultures and ants - will be a cold day coming.

How senseless is this? In this state, children under 12, who can't drive until they are 16, are allowed to carry a weapon and kill a deer, but compassionate people are not allowed to care for injured animals and release them to the wild? Talk about cruelty to animals.

When there are "seed lots" for deer, which lead to a larger deer population, please tell me how that "logic" equates with thinning the herd and survival of the fittest? God made us stewards of the land and animals. For a state to demand that we, in essence, turn our backs on one of his creatures is abhorrent to me.

And society wonders why so many people have no empathy toward any living thing.

Carole Tindoll Weldon

Montgomery

Letter writer needs to tell whole story

A letter writer recalls how former President Eisenhower strived to achieve a balanced federal budget by shifting some defense funds and cutting other funding. He suggests this approach might help President Obama solve the continual budget problems with Congress.

The writer doesn't mention a couple of things. First, he wasn't dealing with a group of radicals who want to make the president look bad at any cost to the American people. Secondly, the top income tax rate during Eisenhower's terms was 90 percent.

A lot of people commend former President Kennedy for cutting the top tax rates. Kennedy's top rate was 70 percent. Why don't we consider a rate of at least 50 percent. That would greatly help our situation? Of course, Tea Party radicals such as U.S. Rep. Martha Roby and others still wouldn't be willing to pay their fair share.

Carl L. Hess

Ozark

MPS is suffering from a lack of leadership

Mary Briers' comments in Josh Moon's most recent article concerning the BOE investigation of the Montgomery Public Schools' grade changing is indicative of significant problems within MPS at the executive level. Neither the board nor the superintendent will accept any responsibility for the negative atmosphere they foster and their lack of sound leadership.

Briers, a former public school teacher and current MPS board member, disparaged MPS teachers by calling them "lazy" and comparing them to chicken feces in Moon's article. This severe lack of respect shown by her comments are grounds for resignation.

She does not belong on the board that represents the parents of children in the system and the taxpayers who fund the system. Mrs. Briers, please leave.

As for the rest of the board and the superintendent, I suggest you start leading and accepting responsibility rather than finger-pointing and denying.

Mark Gisi

Montgomery

History reveals truth about Republican Party

Ronnie Knight's recent letter to the editor recommending that the Republican Party return to the conservative ideology on which it was founded makes me wonder if Mr. Knight knows why the Republican Party was founded. The Republican Party was anything but conservative when it was founded.

The party advocated, if not the abolition of slavery, the prevention of its spread and ending enforcement of the fugitive slave law that required the return of escaped slaves to their former masters. It also advocated a larger role for the federal government in terms of internal improvements and higher tariffs or taxes on imports.

Today the Republican Party is more conservative than the Democratic Party, but it was not so originally. Because of the Republican Party, three constitutional amendments were passed that forever changed the country, ending slavery and providing citizenship and voting rights to black people.

I recommend that Mr. Knight reread the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. He might be persuaded that the Republican Party was originally the party of change and reform.

Daniel Haulman

Montgomery

Al Benn stirs up some sweet memories

Al Benn's article on the American Candy Co. brought back fond memories.

I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, during the Great Depression. We lived near a small candy factory, and their big seller was a concoction called "Mountain Top." It was a large, cone-shaped delight with a center of shredded coconut mixture and an outer coating of dark milk chocolate. Yummy!

Robert Lieberman

Montgomery

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Letters to the editor: Lack of empathy is not so surprising

This just upsets me so much. The day I leave an injured animal behind to suffer in the elements ? to be eaten alive by vultures and ants ? will be a cold day coming.

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